When pain becomes uncontrollable: an experimental analysis of the impact of instructions on pain-control attempts.
Journal
Pain
ISSN: 1872-6623
Titre abrégé: Pain
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 7508686
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
01 03 2021
01 03 2021
Historique:
received:
11
03
2020
accepted:
17
09
2020
pubmed:
2
10
2020
medline:
20
5
2021
entrez:
1
10
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Under some conditions, people persist in their attempts to control their pain even when no such control is possible. Theory suggests that such pain-control attempts arise from actual pain experiences. Across 3 experiments we examined how (1) losing control over pain and (2) instructions concerning pain, moderated pain-control attempts. In each experiment, participants completed a learning task. Before the task, one group of participants received instructions outlining a strategy through which they could control pain, whereas another group had to develop such a strategy through trial-and-error learning. During the first half of the task, the pain-control instructions allowed participants to successfully control pain, whereas during the second half of the task, this was no longer the case. Instead, participants lost control over pain because of an unannounced change in the learning task. Results indicated that when participants lost control over pain, they generally stuck to the previously effective pain-control strategy, and that this tendency was larger if they received instructions from others than when they developed a strategy by themselves. These findings suggest that when pain is no longer controllable, very persistent pain-control attempts might be the result of adherence to previously effective pain-control instructions.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33003108
pii: 00006396-202103000-00012
doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002088
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
760-769Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2020 International Association for the Study of Pain.
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